Zapp / Pro
Zapp Pro: a TV remote app with no subscription
The whole button remote is free, on every TV you own. Pro is one payment of $9.99 for four conveniences — and on some televisions it adds nothing, which this page says plainly.
Free to use. Pro is an optional in-app purchase.
Free, on every TV
- The full button remote, in a layout matched to your TV’s own remote
- Every television in the house — the second TV is never a paywall
- Adding a TV by IP address when it isn’t found automatically
- Big buttons mode: six large keys for anyone who finds a dense remote hard to hit
- No account, no ads, no data collected
What Pro adds, brand by brand
Pro unlocks up to four things: a keyboard, one-tap app shortcuts, the LG Magic Remote pointer, and waking a TV from standby. Which of them a television can use depends on what it lets an app do:
| TV | Pro adds |
|---|---|
| Samsung | One-tap shortcuts to the popular streaming apps your television has — YouTube, Prime Video, Apple TV, Spotify and the likeA keyboard for the TV’s own search and text fieldsWaking the TV from network standby |
| LG | The Magic Remote pointer — move the on-screen cursor by dragging on the phoneA keyboard that opens by itself the moment the television focuses a text field |
| Roku | Your TV’s real app icons, pulled from the device itselfA keyboard for Roku searchWaking the Roku from network standby |
| Google TV | Nothing — everything Zapp does here is free |
| Fire TV | A keyboard for search fields |
If you only have a Google TV, don’t buy Pro: it changes nothing there. Google TV doesn’t let remote apps type, list its apps or wake it.
One payment, compared with a subscription
Remote apps are usually sold by the week. On 22 October 2026 we looked at the six most prominent third-party remote apps in a US App Store search for “tv remote”: all six offered a weekly plan, mostly priced between $4.99 and $9.99 a week, with yearly plans from $19.99 to $39.99.
At those prices, one or two weeks of a subscription costs as much as Zapp Pro does for good. Pro is a single in-app purchase of $9.99: nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel.
Buying, restoring and refunds
- Pro is bought inside the app, through Apple. We never see your payment details.
- New iPhone, or reinstalled the app? Open Pro in the app and tap Restore purchase. It’s free.
- Refunds are handled by Apple, at reportaproblem.apple.com.